The Last Human Spring: Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs!

PREFACE 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9 Chapter I: THE OTHER SPRINGTIME and THE THREE BIG BANGS A. The Other Springtime 19 1. The Regathering 'Human Tribe' 24 2. The Journey Back Homeward-Partial Redemption 26 3. Natural, Human Society 27 4. Humanity's Primary, Earth-folk Innocence 28 5. Living Nature and the Human Circus-Zoo 30 6. To Saddle and Bridle Things 33 B. The Three Big Bangs 37 C. Evolution's Missing Story 39 Chapter II: INTRODUCTORY LIGHT A. Revelation as Rediscovery 43 1. Sociocultural Revelation 43 2. One Last Respringing 52 3. The Root, Human Birthright 56 4. Human Nature, Patterns, and Nutrients 58 5. The Loss of Being 59 6. Emergent, Subliminal Self-destruction 60 7. Truth Vs. Human Truth 60 8. An Allegory of Transmutation 61 9. Three Alien Elements to Human Nature and Being 63 10. The Human Break From Living Nature 65 11. Alienization and Artificialization as Transmutation 67 12. Secular and Religious Responses to Alienization 68 13. Values and Beliefs Attain to Human Transmutation 70 14. Through Sociocultural Into Species Unreality 70 B. Philosophical, Human Rediscovery-Human Authenticism 71 15. Human Authenticism, the Philosophy in Brief 71 16. The Eclipse of Being and Meaning by Personal Identity 74 17. Doctrine of Infinite, 'Human' Possibility vs. Fulfillment of Human Nature 75 18. The Transmutation of Human Will and Purpose 78 19. The Last and Lasting, Human Struggle 79 20. The Authentic Bears Fruit-Human Reality 82 21. Toward Western Unity With Humankind 84 22. Digging Out, Cleansing and Preserving Humankind 86 23. Intershining Human and Sacred Light 89 Chapter III: THE REVELATION OF NURTURECULTURE AND NURTUROME          A. Short Forward 91 B. Slaughter of Great Myths 92 1. Glimpse of Human Authenticism 92 2. Modern Myths Vs. the Human Journey 95 3. The 'Savage' Myth vs. Human Science 96 4. Threshold to the Human Revelation 98 5. Nature Vs. Nurture and Culture: the Key Myth 99 6. The Fall of the "Savage" and Wilderness Man 100 7. Recent Quickenings of The Last Human Spring 103 8. Rediscovering and Re-embracing Human Nature 106 9. The Fall of 'Culture' as Human Distinctive 109 10. The Revelation of Nurtureculture and Nurturome 110 11. The Fall of the Human-Animal Dichotomy 111 12. Human Nature Rediscovers Home Within Living Nature 114 C. The Revelation of Human Selflifeworld 116 13. Short Forward 116 14. The Unified Field of Human Being and Reality 117 15. The Revelation of Triecologic, Whole Self 118 16. Whole Self and Triecologic Selflifeworld 119 17. Human Selflifeworld Collides With 'Civilization' 121 D.'Civilization': the Megamyth 124 18. A Fresh Wind of Freedom 124 19. The First Mistake 125 20. Seven Revelations About 'Civilization' 126 21. Written History's Misrepresentation of Humankind 127 22. 'Civilization' as Humanity's Misbegotten Socioculture 127 23. Who's In and Who's Out 128 24. The Dichotomy of Human Society 129 25. The Endurance and Triumph of Unwritten History-Folklore 130 26. Written History as Elitist Myth and Propaganda 131 27. Historic Myth and Self-illusion Become Species Delusion 132 E. Science Out on a Limb 132 28. An Age Surprise for Humanity 132 29. The Myth of 'Barbarians' Vs 'Civilization' 134 30. Equestrian Warriors as Aberrational 134 31. The Precursor, Alien Society 136 32. The Horse and Dog as Suspects for Alienism 136 F. Other Possible Origins of Alienism 138 G. Selflifeworld as Subject-Object in Unity-Short Forward 142 Chapter IV: EGOSELF: ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENTS, AND ARISINGS A. Organismicities: Whole Self and Human Being 147 B. Egoself: Heidegger, Fromm, Psychology and Individualism 148 C. Alienism's Penetration and Fragmentation of Selflifeworld 151 D. Individual and Social Arisings of Egoself 157 Chapter V: NATURAL, AUTHENTIC, HUMAN MIND A. Short Forward 167 B. Natural Mind from Natural Nutrients 168 C. Transmutation of Mind and Intelligence 169 D. The Household of Mind 170 E. Analogical Genetic and Mental Transmutation 173 F. Fragmented and Alienized Dysfunction of Mind 176 G. Transmuted, Diminished, Partial Mind 178 H. Transmuted, Diminished, Artificialized, Alienized Being 180 I. Organismicity of Mind, Intelligence and Will 181 J. Natural Perception Vs. Transmuted Perception 183 Chapter VI: DIALECTICS A. Short Forward 185 B. Organismic, Human Reality 185 C. Living Nature; Natural, Authentic, Humanity, and 'Civilization' 187 Chapter VII: THE BIG BANG WITHIN EVOLVING LIFE: ORIGIN AND EMERGENCE OF ALIENISM A. Ground Zero: 'Civilized' Humankind 195 B. We Have Met the Aliens, and They Are Us 197 C. Aliens From Where, and How? 198 D. Alienism Overrides Alienation 203 Chapter VIII: HUMAN AUTHENTICISM VS. ALIENISM A. Short Forward: Reaching for Stars 205 B. The Main Conflict and Struggle 206 Chapter IX: WALDEN III: AN ECOPHILOSOPHY A. The Exodus From Earth-Being 214 B. The Innate, Ecological Paradigm 215 C. Ecological Identification Without a Base 216 D. Neither Ecocentrism nor Anthropocentricism 218 E. From Wildernessism to Ecophilosophy of Human Authenticism 222 1. Resisting the Exodus from Earth Village 222 2. Paleolithic and Neolithic Lifeways vs. The City 225 3. Post-Historic Primitivism Within Earth-Folk, A'Civilization Pardigm 227 A 'Civilization' Paradigm 227 4. The Limits of Wildernessism 230 F. Humanity: Living Nature Become Self-conscious? 234 G. Economy, Ethics, Ecosystems, and Living Nature 236 H. Deep Ecology Versus Ecofeminism? 237 I. Science Penetrates Living Nature 240 J. Getting On-Line or Getting Off-Line? 245 K. Life and Non-Life as First, Primary Dichotomy and Perception 247 L. Cultured or Crabbed or Cancered 249 M. From Walden to Nature-Human Village 251 N. Epilogue 260 Chapter X: BRIEF APPLICATIONS OF HUMAN AUTHENTICISM 1. Search for Nutrients Vs. Search for Discovery 266 2. Motherhood I, Mother Nature, and the Aliens 269 3. Human Environmentalism 272 4. Truth and Reality 274 5. Metaphysics and Epistemology 276 6. The Cosmos of Carl Sagan vs. Earthlifeworld 278 7. Beauty 288 8. Earth-life-Sun Cosmos vs. Universe/Cosmos 289 9. Astronomy, Outer Space, and Living Nature 290 10. Natural Perception 295 11. Human Organismicity 296 12. Twentieth Century History and L. Mumford 297 13. Futurism 299 14. Cultural Movements 302 15. Joseph Campbell and Mythology 303 16. Living Nature, Intelligence and 'Civilization' 306 17. Living Nature, Intelligence and Being, 307 18. Freedom Vs. Determinism 308 19. Freedom and Automatized Sci-Technics and Commercialism 312 20. Computers 315 21. Cybernetics 316 22. Heidegger 317 23. Symbolism 324 24. Overpopulation 326 25. Western Religions 327 26. 'Primitivism' 329 27. Anthropology and History 330 28. Religion and Science 331 29. Science 333 30. 'The Unity of Science' as False Quest 338 31. Confucianism and Taoism 339 32. Individualism 344 33. Language, Reality, and Being 347 34. Sight and Language 348 35. Language 350 36. Television 353 37. Photography 356 38. Childhood 357 39. Contemporary Philosophy 361 40. Linguistic Philosophy 363 41. Gadamer's Hermenuetics 365 42. Relativism 366 43. Mind-body Unity 367 Chapter XI: THINK VERSE, SOUL LINES, ECOPOETRY Ecolove: Ode to True Humanity 369 Alien From Nowhere 371 Quakes 372 To Speak the Body of We 373 Junk World, Flash World 374 Fossil Speech 375 Story of the Night 376 Leaving Her 378 The Question of Being Alone 380 Pretty Lie 381 The Bang Within 382 War and Peace 384 The Right Stuff 385 Recent Sex 387 Story of Earth-Life 388 Retaken 390 Perception's Storm 391 Machine 392 Flow 393 Old Knowledge 395 New Knowledge 396 Through This Skin 397 History 397 Being's Memory 398 The Answer 400 Unaborted Lines 402 Flash 403 Calls from the Wild Within 404 Oh, Fresh Eternal Day 406 Body Meets Culture 407 Spark or Fire 409 Life and Soul 410 Forgiving Earth 411 Time Affair 413 Incubation Words 415 Informed Speech 415 Time and Space 416 Real Exploration 417 Second Nature, Second Death 418 Body Time 419 Old Soul 420 That Thousand Years 421 Starkly 422 Resolution 422 Youth Triadics 423 In Memoriam 424 The Year Recalls in Thee 425 NOTES 427 INDEX 429

\ The Last Human Spring provides a philosophy of the nature-human world and its interactions, from concepts of evolution and astronomical history to reflections on concepts of aliens, human alliances with and struggles over nature, and visions of how humanity interacts with the environment. An intiguing survey of human life and meaning.\ —Midwest Book Review\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Environmental EducationThe author, L. S. Heatherly, has done an admirable job of orchestrating a mind-expanding series of short essays ...convincing and thought-provoking ideas ...that show the reader how ...and why[our]separation from nature began ...and continues to exist. In an account similar to Daniel Quinn's Ishmael ideas,...he convincingly debunks many of the great myths that drive our modern human thinking ...and shows how ...only through civilization have [humans] achieved a disconnect [from nature] ...highly readable ...adult readers can [opt to] read in short sections ...suited to a high school or college audience with a good teacher or instructor ...[a] wonderful and uplifting [treatise] of a new spiritual redemption to be used in general environmental education studies [despite] a negative vision of the future ...\ &#151Richard R. Jurin\ \